Smokehouse Guitars

Features

• 25.5″ Scale
• Wenge Neck
• Gabon Ebony fingerboard
• Quilted Sappelle head plate
• Wenge control cover plates
• Two Way Truss Rod
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• MOP Inlay
• 16″ Neck Radius
• French Polish Finish, Blond Shellac (neck)
• All Chrome Hardware
• GFS Little Crunchy Mini Humbuckers
• Master Volume/Tone
• Push/Pull Coil Tap (tone knob)
• 3-way Selector Switch
• Top loader bridge
• Solid poplar body insert

This is a true solid body guitar.  There is a solid block of poplar inside the box, giving the instrument an unusually bright tone.  The wenge/ebony neck is incredibly solid and stable, yielding impeccable  sustain.  The pickups are designed to address many of the problems found in typical mini-humbuckers.  They are wound at 8.8K and 7.6K for the bridge and neck (respectively), and are heavily potted to eliminate microphonics.  The internals feature warm-wound oversize ceramic magnets, providing great upper-mid-range with zero harshness.  The tone knob doubles as a coil tap to put the humbuckers into single coil mode.  Single coil mode provides bright and lively tone, with the bridge pickup almost channeling vintage Telecaster sounds.

Features

• 25.5″ Scale
• African Mahogany Neck
• Cocobolo Fretboard
• Tiger Maple Headstock Veneer
• Two Way Truss Rod
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• MOP Inlay
• 16″ Neck Radius
• French Polish Finish, Blond Shellac (neck)
• All Black Hardware
• Strap Locks
• GFS Dream 90 Pickups (P90′s in  a modified humbucker case)
• Master Volume/Tone
• 3-way Selector Switch
• String-through-body Bridge

The look of this guitar is stunning but the best part about it is the pickup configuration.  Vintage P90 pickups have a truly unique sound but they are also know for their noise issues.  These are boutique level pickups that have been potted to eliminate microphonics and they are set up for some serious output; 8.4 K at the bridge and 8.2 K at the neck.  The best thing about them by far is that the neck pickup is reverse wound, such that when both pickups are selected the provide true humbucking performance (absolutely zero noise at rest, even with the gain dialed up as high as it will go).

Features

• 610mm Scale
• Tapered Poplar Neck
• Red Oak Fretboard
• Tung Oil Finish (neck)
• Decorative Headstock Veneer
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• 16″ Neck Radius
• Chrome Sound Hole Screens
• Hand Carved Marawood Bridge
• Brass Saddle
• True Acoustic Soundboard (no neck-through)
• Bridge-mount Piezoelectric Pickup
• Chrome Output Jack
• Chrome Strap Buttons
• Box is sealed with a lacquer spray finish

The standard acoustic guitar is the most affordable instrument that I make.  It is very simple in its design; however you will not find another guitar like it that can match its tone or playability.  This is the “hot rod” of basic piezo pickup cigar box guitars.

Features

• 25.5″ Scale
• 16″ Neck Radius
• 2 Way Truss Rod
• Curly Cherry Neck
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Lacewood Headplate
• Gabon Ebony Fretboard
• Red Abalone Dot Inlay
• Gold Jumbo Frets
• Handmade Wood Laminate Parts (Zebra, Paduak, Ebony)(truss cover, jack plate, pickup ring, knobs)
• Handmade Custom Neck Pickup (Alnico5 magnets, 8,000 winds, lacquered coil)
• Volume & Tone Controls, 250K pots
• Handmade Marawood Bridge, brass saddle
• Rosewood Control Cover Plate
• French Polish Finish

If you want the finest handmade cigar box guitar available today, this is where you come to get it.  Period.

Features

• 610 mm Scale
• Decorative Headstock Veneer
• Poplar Neck
• Red Oak Fret Board
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• MOP Inlay
• French Polish Finish (neck)
• All Gold Hardware
• Sound Hole Screens
• Hand-spun Brass Resonator Cone
• Indian Rosewood Biscuit
• Buffalo Bone Saddle
• Piezoelectric Pickup embedded in the biscuit

Features

• 610 mm scale
• Poplar Neck
• Alder Fingerboard
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• All Chrome Hardware
• Sound Hole Screens
• Hand-spun Brass Resonator Cone
• Indian Rosewood Biscuit
• Brass Saddle
• Piezoelectric Pickup embedded in the biscuit

Features

• 25.5 inch scale
• Red Oak Neck
• Poplar Fingerboard
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Two Way Truss Rod
• Dual Rail Humbucker (Bridge), reverse-mounted for treble bias on bass strings
• Master Volume Push/Pull Pot (Push-Humbucker, Pull-Single Coil)
• Preamp treble booster and frequency expander
• All parts, plates, and covers are handmade Indian Rosewood
• Brass saddle

This is another custom guitar that I made for Shane Speal.  If you know who he is (just Google him – he’s everywhere) then you know he’s a fanatic for a three string guitar.  Well, in his never ending progression through insanity, he asked me to design a three string guitar with the sound of an old school Rickenbacker 12 string.  It’s a little nuts when you think about it; if you know of a three string guitar that out-fancies this one please let me know, okay?  I’d love to see it.

Features

• 610mm Scale
• Tapered Red Oak Neck
• Poplar Fretboard
• Tung Oil Finish (neck)
• Buffalo Bone Nut
• Medium Nickel/Silver Fret Wire
• 16″ Neck Radius
• Chrome Sound Hole Screens
• Hand Carved Marawood Bridge
• Brass Saddle
• True Acoustic Soundboard (no neck-through)
• Bridge-mount Piezoelectric Pickup
• Chrome Output Jack
• Box is sealed with a lacquer spray finish

The standard acoustic guitar is the most affordable instrument that I make.  It is very simple in its design; however you will not find another guitar like it that can match its tone or playability.  This is the “hot rod” of basic piezo pickup cigar box guitars.

Features

• Four String guitar, poplar neck, red oak fingerboard, Tung Oil finish
• Fingerboard radius of 16″
• All gold hardware (including frets)
• Archtop Jazz mini humbucker
• Volume/Tone control
• Gibson style top hat knobs
• Lacquer coated box
• Control cavity with access to pots

The Red Queen guitar is by far one of my most popular traditional four string guitars.  The loud red box is set off perfectly by the gold hardware and the simplicity of the design, right down to the plain oak bridge, belies a screaming bitch of a tone machine.

One of the coolest things about this guitar is its rarity.  Red Punch cigar boxes are very hard to come by.  I always try to snatch them up when I find them but even so, I usually go months without having one in my cigar box reserves.  At the time of this writing, only three of these guitars exist in the whole world.  Two are located in America and one of them (the first one I ever made) is in Japan.  Whenever I do manage to get a red Punch box, I use it only for this guitar as anything less would be a waste.